On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 05:16:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> FYI I am a member of the lpadmin group. Whats next? reboot to make it
> take effect?
Log out and back in to acquire the new privileges in your interactive
session.
However, in the case of CUPS via loopback HTTP, I don't know whether
that's actually required. The CUPS daemon may take the privileges
directly from the /etc/{passwd,group} files.
> You have made it very clear not to assign a pw to root, do everything
> with sudo.
Bunk. You can still do things normally. In fact, normal (root having
a password) is still the default in Debian, insofar as anything is.
Also, having a root password makes it possible to login in single user
mode when there's a file system problem. Good luck with that under an
Ubuntu-style (sudo only) setup.
